What if Apple released a “kitchen
sink” edition of every one of the Beatles’ 12 UK albums (with the Yellow
Submarine and US Magical Mystery Tour soundtracks combined into one)? Include every extant session outtake, every
note of BBC sessions, all the well-recorded live shows (like Sam Houston Coliseum)…
everything. This would include all the
material on the Anthology, BBC, Rarities, and Past Masters sets
(obviously). Here’s my starting point
for this. What else would you add?
*Please Please Me: original
album in mono, stereo, and remixed w/studio outtakes and demos; Decca audition
tape; original 45 version of “Love Me Do”; all 1962 BBC sessions (Here We
Go/Teenager’s Turn/Talent Spot); highlights from Hamburg tapes?; all episodes
of BBC’s “Pop Go the Beatles”
*With the Beatles: original
album in mono, stereo, and remixed w/studio outtakes and demos; same applies to
the From Me To You, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand singles and their
b-sides; Royal Variety Show; 1963 Christmas disk; all 1963 BBC radio broadcasts
except “Pop Go the Beatles”
*A Hard Day’s Night: original
album (plus Long Tall Sally EP and the German single) in mono, stereo, and
remixed w/studio outtakes and demos; first three Ed Sullivan Shows; first US
concert (Washington DC); AHDN film; all BBC radio episodes of “From Us To You”
*Beatles For Sale: original
album (plus I Feel Fine single) in mono, stereo, and remixed w/studio outtakes
and demos; 1964 Christmas disk; 1964 Hollywood Bowl show(s); Philadelphia
concert (radio broadcast?); Around the Beatles (original clean audio only as
well as video of the finished TV special); all 1964 BBC sessions except “From
Us To You” shows
*Help!: original album (plus
“Yes It Is,” “Bad Boy,” “I’m Down”) in mono, stereo, and remixed w/studio
outtakes and demos; Shea Stadium show with original audio (as opposed to the
re-recorded audio from 1966); “Beatles Invite You” BBC radio special; Help!
film; 1965 Hollywood Bowl concerts; Live in Italy (from Tobe Milo EP… perhaps
this exists in better quality somewhere)
*Rubber Soul: original album
(plus “We Can Work it Out”/”Day Tripper”) in mono, stereo, and remixed w/studio
outtakes and demos; 1965 Christmas disk; Sam Houston coliseum; video: 1965 Ed Sullivan
appearance; Shea Stadium
*Revolver: original album in
mono, stereo, and remixed w/studio outtakes and demos; Budokan shows (audio and
video); final concert from San Francisco (audio only); 1966 Christmas disk; Paperback
Writer/Rain original mono and stereo mixes plus outtakes; original mix of “Tomorrow
Never Knows” which went out accidentally on first UK pressings; the various US
mixes of “I’m Only Sleeping” which are different from the UK mixes
*Sgt. Pepper: no changes to
2017 box
*YS/MMT: original 11 tracks
from the US version (mono, stereo and remixed) plus outtakes and demos; the
four Yellow Submarine cuts (mono, stereo, and 1999 remixes) plus outtakes and
demos; Lady Madonna/Inner Light plus outtakes; Carnival of Light; You Know My
Name (the full, unedited stereo version as well as the original mono 45 edit);
Across the Universe w/outtakes; 1967 Christmas disk; full-length “Christmas
Time Is Here Again”; incidental music recorded for MMT (such as Shirley’s Wild
Accordian and Aunt Jesse’s Dream); George Martin’s entire score (side 2 of the YS
LP); “I Am the Walrus” edit from the US “Rarities” album; and for video: both movies,
the Our World broadcast, and the Lady Madonna promo video
*White Album: no changes to
the 2018 version except adding the original mixes of Hey Jude and Revolution; Kenny
Everett interviews with John and George (released on an Italian double-7”
promo); audio from the Hey Jude/Revolution promotional films (and video as
well, if possible); and the 1968 Christmas disk
*Abbey Road: no changes to
the 2019 release except adding the original mixes of Old Brown Shoe and Ballad
of John and Yoko; 1969 Christmas disk; the alternate version of “Octopus’
Garden” from Ringo’s TV special with a live vocal performed to a remixed
backing track
*LIB: in addition to what we
know is included, add the LIB Naked mixes; the LIBN fly on the wall disk audio;
the three dialogue cuts from the 1970 one-sided 7” promo; and audio of the
entire rooftop performance. If they
really wanted to be deluxe, reproductions of Sweet Apple Trax and the Black
Album (which cover the best of the NAGRA material, and also allows them to beat
the bootleggers a la Frank Zappa).
Tomorrow: my suggestion for a
“perfect” version of “Let It Be”
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